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Avicenna and the Visionary Recital: (Mythos Series)
By (Author) Henry Corbin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
East Asian and Indian philosophy
181.5
Hardback
440
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
765g
In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics. Henry Corbin's discovery in an Istanbul library of the manuscript of a Persian tr